Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
JOHN DONNELove built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
More John Donne Quotes
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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
JOHN DONNEAsk not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
JOHN DONNEArt is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
JOHN DONNENature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
JOHN DONNENo spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
JOHN DONNEHow great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
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As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
JOHN DONNEAs states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
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I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.
JOHN DONNEI count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.
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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
JOHN DONNEAll occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
JOHN DONNEA man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.
JOHN DONNETo know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.
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If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
JOHN DONNEIf ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
JOHN DONNENothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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I shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
JOHN DONNEI shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
JOHN DONNEPoor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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In heaven it is always autumn.
JOHN DONNEIn heaven it is always autumn.
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